I’m a bit older, but this reminds me of back when people used to shame people with 8 digit SteamIDs, because they were obviously noobs, compared to 7 digit people, and of course the 6 digit people.
Bwah, my 7 digit one starts with a 0, yours starts with 8, [insert various slurs]!
And now the entire format has been through I think like 3 total revisions or something?
What about my Fark account number being a low 6 digit number (It would have been lower, but I just lurked for a year first)?? Or how far I got in various MUDDs on my local BBS?? I need someone to recognize my internet clout!! My gmail account is my name with no numbers.
I played YAHOO! Games, god damnit, and used Dogpile to search Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Excite, HotBot, and AltaVista!!!1!!!
I do. In fact as part of the reddit exodus, and the shut down of hardocp, I found myself going over there more often as part of my “scan of the internet”.
Nice. Too bad Slashdot doesn’t show the date an account was created. I would like to what year I made mine, Around 30,000 so I know it’s pretty early, but would that be '98, '99,or '00?Don’t know.
My Fark profile was created 2002.
And for people who might be impressed, a 7 digit ICQ number proves they aren’t really old school.
All depends on what that first digit is.
I’m a bit older, but this reminds me of back when people used to shame people with 8 digit SteamIDs, because they were obviously noobs, compared to 7 digit people, and of course the 6 digit people.
Bwah, my 7 digit one starts with a 0, yours starts with 8, [insert various slurs]!
And now the entire format has been through I think like 3 total revisions or something?
What about my Fark account number being a low 6 digit number (It would have been lower, but I just lurked for a year first)?? Or how far I got in various MUDDs on my local BBS?? I need someone to recognize my internet clout!! My gmail account is my name with no numbers.
I played YAHOO! Games, god damnit, and used Dogpile to search Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Excite, HotBot, and AltaVista!!!1!!!
My ISP (run by a jerky company) kept its BBS running until the mid-90s just for us still playing the MUDDs.
What about my 5 digit Slashdot uid number? Does anyone remember Slashdot?
I do. In fact as part of the reddit exodus, and the shut down of hardocp, I found myself going over there more often as part of my “scan of the internet”.
six digits here , loooooowwww six digits.
Oh yeah, mines 6 digits, but the first 3 are 101. I started using it more when Reddit enshittified too much.
I do.
https://slashdot.org/~ender (edit, since it’s not super obvious - #79)
Nice. Too bad Slashdot doesn’t show the date an account was created. I would like to what year I made mine, Around 30,000 so I know it’s pretty early, but would that be '98, '99,or '00?Don’t know. My Fark profile was created 2002.
I would bet 98-99? I have no real insight into the numbers, just a guess. Fark frontpage days were pretty 👍